useless facts

[Platapus]

Elephants have around 150,000 muscle units in their trunk.

[Jimbuna]

A snail can sleep for three years.

[Platapus]

The circular huddle in American Football was invented by Paul D. Hubbard, quarterback for the Gallaudet University football team in 1894. He was afraid that the opposing team, also from a deaf college would be intercepting his signals.



Happy Deaf Awareness Month

[Jimbuna]

The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

[mapuc]

It happens I look up on things written in this thread.

Here what it says about moon same volume as the Pacific.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is 660,000,000 cubic meter
The volume of the Moon is 21,958,000,000 cubic meter

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

[Platapus]

The Latin phrase “e pluribus unum” which translates to “out of many, one” and which is one of the mottos of the United States of America, has roots in the writings of Virgil, the great Roman poet who lived from 70 to 19 BCE. It is actually from a recipe he wrote for pesto.

[Von Due]

It would take approximately a Graham's Number number of observable universes, as a minimum, to write all the digits in Graham's Number.

[Von Due]

Place Graham's Number in between zero and Tree(3) and Graham's Number roughly equals zero.

[Jimbuna]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

[Aktungbby]

I've climbed a lot of those narrow steep 1 ft stairs incl. The Tower of London, Doone Castle,(MontyPython)Edinburgh Castle... and even Ft Point under the Golden Gate. The advantage to the defender was the downward stroke to an upcoming helmet or left pauldron from a higher step above enroute to the lordships' lofty boudoir in one of the towers. Going to bed in your castle, or mounting Civil War guard duty while reenacting in miserable Ft Point at 2AM on the 4th level top parapet in January is a frigid aerobic workout!

[Platapus]

Disney fired John Lasseter, in 1984, for pushing computer animation


He is now CEO of Pixar

[Jimbuna]

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by mapuc

It happens I look up on things written in this thread.

Here what it says about moon same volume as the Pacific.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is 660,000,000 cubic meter
The volume of the Moon is 21,958,000,000 cubic meter

Markus

But IF the theory the Moon is hallow is true?
It could have a volume of 660,000,000 cubic meters!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Well they're not paying room and board so they got the first part right! and they're working on the second
part>

A COVID-19 outbreak at the N.H. State Prison has resulted in its first death, according to data released Wednesday by the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services.
A total of 184 inmates and 58 staff had tested positive at the Concord prison as of Wednesday, according to the state health department. A spokeswoman for the N.H. Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to a question about whether it was an inmate or employee who had died. Two people incarcerated in New Hampshire facilities have died this week in unrelated incidents.
The Department of Corrections announced the investigation into the untimely death of an inmate at the New Hampshire Men’s Prison in Concord in a press release Tuesday. The department said no additional information would be released after the family was notified and an autopsy was conducted by the Office of the Medical Examiner.